The conservative newspaper/website
Human Events
gets a great deal of mileage by carrying Patrick J.
Buchanan's columns.According to its advertising directors, over half
a million readers signed up to get his columns
sent—along with ads— directly to their e-mail.Buchanan and
Ann Coulter
usually trade spots for the most popular columns on the
site.
Although several sites—such as VDARE.COM—carry
Buchanan's column online, when you click on
"Pat Buchanan"
at
Drudge Report,
you go straight to
the Human Events
archive.

Of course, this is controversial. But many eminent
intellectuals, such as
George Kennan
and the British left-wing historian
A.J.P. Taylor have
taken the same position. And it's apparently not impossibly
controversial—Human
Events happily gives the ... link to the book at
the bottom of each of the Buchanan columns it posts,
with no sign that it will refuse the resulting
commission if you click through and buy.

MSNBC is the leading left wing cable network, so it is
not surprising that would respond to a witch hunt by
lefty groups.

But Human Events does not have that excuse.In fact,
Human Events regularly denounces the
groups organizing the witch hunt.
Nonetheless, it also deleted Pat's column—with
absolutely no explanation.

This is not the first time that
Human Events
has betrayed its popular columnist over what the left
decrees are politically incorrect statements about World
War II.When
the 89 year-old Ukrainian immigrant
John Demjanjuk
was for a second
time stripped of his citizenship and sent overseas
for a show trial, Pat Buchanan bravely defended this
elderly target of the immigration authorities in a
column—certainly hard-hitting—entitled
"The
True Haters".

As Pat noted, Demjanjuk was previously accused of being
a particularly sadistic concentration camp guard,
"Ivan the
Terrible", at the Treblinka concentration camp.The U.S. stripped Demjanjuk of his citizenship
and extradited him to Israel. He spent over six years in
an Israeli prison—four on death row—for his supposed
crimes at Treblinka. But the charges were
completely fabricated, and in 1993, the Israeli Supreme
court unanimously overturned the verdict and fully
exonerated Demjanjuk.

Not willing to acknowledge their mistake, however, the
professional Holocaust Industry immediately claimed
Demjanjuk was a concentration camp guard at another
camp—though they now acknowledge he was
conscripted
into service and was not particularly sadistic.The witch hunt against Demjanjuk continued until
he was deported to stand trial in Germany on May 11.

Human Events
ran a violent piece by columnist Joseph Rehyansky,
attacking Buchanan for his defense of Demjanjuk [Buchanan
Is Wrong About Demjanjuk,
May 5, 2009]. Rehyansky did not dispute any of the
important facts about the case, but nevertheless called
Pat a "lost soul"
who had confined himself to what Rehyansky called,
quoting
William F. Buckley,
"the
fever swamps
of the right

Rehyansky comically appealed to
Winston Churchill
and
Buckley
as authorities on Jews and anti-Semitism. He said: "I
am Zionist in the same sense that [Churchill] was" and quoted the British leader—

"We owe to the Jews a system of ethics which, even it
were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be
incomparably the most precious possession of mankind,
worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put
together."

But what Rehyansky did not mention is this came from
Churchill's 1920 essay,
Zionism vs. Bolshevism—in
which he wrote that there was a
"sinister
confederacy" of
"International
Jews" who made up a
"world-wide
conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization" that
was the

"mainspring of every subversive movement during the
Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of
extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the
great cities of Europe and America have gripped the
Russian people by the hair of their heads and have
become practically the undisputed masters of that
enormous empire."

Similarly, Rehyansky repeatedly cites Bill Buckley's
In Search of Anti-Semitism.
But in fact Buckley did not make Buchanan's defense of
Demjanjuk part of his case against Pat. In fact,
Buckley
acknowledged
that it is "conceivable
that the defendant Demjanjuk…is actually the wrong man".

Had Israel hanged Demjanjuk, he would have been the
first person executed by Israel since
Adolf Eichmann. And unlike
Demjanjuk who—at worst—was a 22 year conscript forced to
work in a concentration camp, Eichmann was the chief
architect of the "Final Solution."

But in 1961
Buckley
called the prosecution of Eichmann a
"show trial"
and a "lurid
extravaganza" which would
"almost certainly
encourage the Hate Germany movement." [Let's
All Hate Germany, Comrade, National Review, March
25, 1961(PDF)]

By any standard what Buckley said about Eichmann and
what Churchill said about
"International Jews" is far more "anti-Semitic" than anything that Pat Buchanan has ever written.

The truth is that neither Buchanan column at all defends
Hitler, belittles the Holocaust, or suggests that Nazism
was a good system.

But simply questioning the causes of the war, or
defending an ailing man against witch hunt, is now
unacceptable.

This is not the
first time Human
Events has pitched politically incorrect pieces, or
writers, down the Memory Hole.In 2004, after receiving a phone call from the
Southern Poverty Law Center, the editors [Email
them]
fired
managing editor Kevin Lamb and
deleted all of his
articles, along with those of
Marion Kester Coombs
and
Wayne Lutton,
from its website.

Americans already have to worry about the Department of
Homeland Security in alliance with groups like
Media Matters,
the
ADL,
and the
$PLC,
shutting us up.

We do not need ostensibly
"conservative"
publications collaborating with this mounting Reign of
Terror.